Huge drama unfolded during the build-up to the Australian Grand Prix as Oscar Piastri crashed on his way to the grid – ending his home race before it had even started.
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Op de eerste dag van de oorlog ging niet alleen de Opperste Leider van Iran dood. Er stierven ook 70 kinderen. Ze zaten allemaal op dezelfde school. Dat ze dood zijn was niet waar, zeiden de Amerikanen eerst. En toen zeiden ze dat de kinderen als schild hadden gediend voor militaire installaties.
En nu is aangetoond dat ook dat niet waar is zegt T rump dat ze gedood zijn door hun eigen leiders.
NEW YORK (ANP) - De FBI doet onderzoek naar twee verdachte voorwerpen die zaterdag buiten bij de woning van de burgemeester van New York, Zohran Mamdani, werden aangetroffen. Het zou volgens Amerikaanse media om geïmproviseerde explosieven gaan die tot ontploffing waren gebracht.
Volgens een commissaris van de politie in New York bevatten de explosieven moeren, bouten en schroeven, maar was het niet duidelijk of het om functionerende geïmproviseerde explosieven ging of om onschadelijke replica's.
Buiten bij Gracie Mansion, de officiële residentie van de burgemeester, vond zaterdag een anti-islamprotest plaats. Bij het incident werden twee mannen gearresteerd, onder wie de extreemrechtse influencer Jake Lang. Zij zouden de voorwerpen hebben gegooid. Er vond tegelijkertijd ook een tegendemonstratie plaats.
De Joint Terrorism Task Force van de FBI in New York en de politie van New York onderzoeken de zaak op dit moment.
VUGHT (ANP) - In een restaurant aan de Vliertstraat in Vught (Noord-Brabant) is in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag rond 03.30 uur brand uitgebroken. Vanwege de dichte bebouwing is een aantal nabijgelegen woningen ontruimd. De bewoners worden opgevangen.
Vanwege mist blijft er veel rook hangen rond de zeer grote brand. De veiligheidsregio adviseert omwonenden ramen en deuren dicht te houden en ventilatie uit te schakelen.
MELBOURNE (ANP) - Oscar Piastri mist zijn thuisrace van de Formule 1 in Australië. De coureur van McLaren crashte op weg naar de startopstelling voor de eerste race van het seizoen op circuit Albert Park in Melbourne. Hij reed zijn auto in een van de bochten iets te hard over de kerbstones, spinde en kwam tegen de vangrails tot stilstand. De auto was dusdanig beschadigd dat starten niet meer mogelijk was.
Het was een dramatische uitvalbeurt voor Piastri, die als vijfde zou beginnen aan de openingsrace en kon rekenen op de steun van het massaal aanwezige publiek. De Australiër deed vorig jaar lang mee in de titelstrijd en eindigde als derde.
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi says US-Israel war on Iran ‘should never have happened’ as strikes continue to hit Tehran and Beirut
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The Israeli military said it launched a wave of strikes “across Iran” on Sunday, targeting military sites.
A military statement said it had “initiated a wave of strikes targeting the Iranian terror regime military infrastructure across Iran”.
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Flood-affected residents in the Northern Territory have been warned not to swim in crocodile-filled waters, as tropical lows continue to bring major flood warnings and heavy rains to the Top End and Queensland.
Hundreds of people were evacuated over the weekend, with the entire town of Nauiyu/Daly River in the NT evacuated as of Sunday afternoon, the NT chief minister, Lia Finocchiaro, said.
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Also confirmed following qualifying was that Lance Stroll, whose beleaguered Aston Martin didn’t even attempt to take part in qualifying due to engine issues, will start from the back of the grid after putting forth a “compelling” appeal to FIA stewards.
“It’s been a tough weekend so far with a few issues that have kept us from getting the laps we needed,” Stroll said before the confirmation he’d be allowed to race. “The team in the garage have been working really hard, but there just wasn’t enough time to get the car rebuilt before Qualifying.
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Mannelijke avonturiers maakten naam met heroïsche poolreizen, maar vrouwen gingen óók. En op Spitsbergen zie je tegenwoordig steeds meer vrouwen.
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"It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial-intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its hacking prowess," reports the Wall Street Journal.
The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox's developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? "What else do you have? Send us more," said Brian Grinstead, an engineer with Mozilla, Firefox's parent organization.
Anthropic did. Over a two-week period in January, Claude Opus 4.6 found more high-severity bugs in Firefox than the rest of the world typically reports in two months, Mozilla said... In the two weeks it was scanning, Claude discovered more than 100 bugs in total, 14 of which were considered "high severity..." Last year, Firefox patched 73 bugs that it rated as either high severity or critical.
A Mozilla blog post calls Firefox "one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible, reviewable, and continuously stress-tested by a global community." So they're impressed — and also thankful Anthropic provided test cases "that allowed our security team to quickly verify and reproduce each issue."
Within hours, our platform engineers began landing fixes, and we kicked off a tight collaboration with Anthropic to apply the same technique across the rest of the browser codebase... . A number of the lower-severity findings were assertion failures, which overlapped with issues traditionally found through fuzzing, an automated testing technique that feeds software huge numbers of unexpected inputs to trigger crashes and bugs. However, the model also identified distinct classes of logic errors that fuzzers had not previously uncovered...
We view this as clear evidence that large-scale, AI-assisted analysis is a powerful new addition in security engineers' toolbox. Firefox has undergone some of the most extensive fuzzing, static analysis, and regular security review over decades. Despite this, the model was able to reveal many previously unknown bugs. This is analogous to the early days of fuzzing; there is likely a substantial backlog of now-discoverable bugs across widely deployed software.
"In the time it took us to validate and submit this first vulnerability to Firefox, Claude had already discovered fifty more unique crashing inputs" in 6,000 C++ files, Anthropic says in a blog post (which points out they've also used Claude Opus 4.6 to discover vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel).
"Anthropic "also rolled out Claude Code Security, an automated code security testing tool, last month," reports Axios, noting the move briefly rattled cybersecurity stocks...
The Anthropic team submitted it, and Firefox's developers quickly wrote back: This bug was serious. Could they get on a call? "What else do you have? Send us more," said Brian Grinstead, an engineer with Mozilla, Firefox's parent organization.
Anthropic did. Over a two-week period in January, Claude Opus 4.6 found more high-severity bugs in Firefox than the rest of the world typically reports in two months, Mozilla said... In the two weeks it was scanning, Claude discovered more than 100 bugs in total, 14 of which were considered "high severity..." Last year, Firefox patched 73 bugs that it rated as either high severity or critical.
A Mozilla blog post calls Firefox "one of the most scrutinized and security-hardened codebases on the web. Open source means our code is visible, reviewable, and continuously stress-tested by a global community." So they're impressed — and also thankful Anthropic provided test cases "that allowed our security team to quickly verify and reproduce each issue."
Within hours, our platform engineers began landing fixes, and we kicked off a tight collaboration with Anthropic to apply the same technique across the rest of the browser codebase... . A number of the lower-severity findings were assertion failures, which overlapped with issues traditionally found through fuzzing, an automated testing technique that feeds software huge numbers of unexpected inputs to trigger crashes and bugs. However, the model also identified distinct classes of logic errors that fuzzers had not previously uncovered...
We view this as clear evidence that large-scale, AI-assisted analysis is a powerful new addition in security engineers' toolbox. Firefox has undergone some of the most extensive fuzzing, static analysis, and regular security review over decades. Despite this, the model was able to reveal many previously unknown bugs. This is analogous to the early days of fuzzing; there is likely a substantial backlog of now-discoverable bugs across widely deployed software.
"In the time it took us to validate and submit this first vulnerability to Firefox, Claude had already discovered fifty more unique crashing inputs" in 6,000 C++ files, Anthropic says in a blog post (which points out they've also used Claude Opus 4.6 to discover vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel).
"Anthropic "also rolled out Claude Code Security, an automated code security testing tool, last month," reports Axios, noting the move briefly rattled cybersecurity stocks...
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Steven Spielberg directed his last Jurassic Park movie nearly 30 years ago, notes ScreenRant. But the 79-year-old filmmaker now brings us The Dinosaurs, a four-part documentary on Netflix where he's executive producer:
The first few reviews are in, and the results lead to a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It's worth noting that the rating will likely fluctuate since there are only six reviews. So far, critics all agree that the new Netflix docuseries is a breathtaking visual of history's most majestic creatures, and Morgan Freeman's soothing narration elevates the experience. Most importantly, the reviews note that the story is intimate, making the dinosaurs feel real with their personalities.
"Audience" reviewers gave it a lower score of 67%.
"There is a sense of drama and emotional weight which permeates through the entire series as it tells the story of the dinosaurs from start to the present day. The ending brought tears to my eyes..."
"Wow, what a sleeper! Flat graphics, looks like video game animations. Unrelatable story lines. Don't waste your time. Honestly would you even look twice if Spielberg's name wasn't on it?"
"This show was honestly incredible... It was a 10/10 series that I absolutely adored highly recommended to anyone who loves and has an interest of the ancient world."
"I'm sorry, but the dinos of Prehistoric Planet are far superior, and were achieved on a much smaller budget. Their dinos look absolutely real, and you are convinced you're watching a documentary with real animals"
ScreenRant notes Netflix's debut of The Dinosaurs' "aligns perfectly" with the arrival of all four Jurassic World movies on Netflix, where they're already dominating Netflix's "Top 10" charts for the U.S.
"Witness the rise and the fall of nature's greatest empire," narrator Morgan Freeman says in the trailer...
The first few reviews are in, and the results lead to a perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes. It's worth noting that the rating will likely fluctuate since there are only six reviews. So far, critics all agree that the new Netflix docuseries is a breathtaking visual of history's most majestic creatures, and Morgan Freeman's soothing narration elevates the experience. Most importantly, the reviews note that the story is intimate, making the dinosaurs feel real with their personalities.
"Audience" reviewers gave it a lower score of 67%.
"There is a sense of drama and emotional weight which permeates through the entire series as it tells the story of the dinosaurs from start to the present day. The ending brought tears to my eyes..."
"Wow, what a sleeper! Flat graphics, looks like video game animations. Unrelatable story lines. Don't waste your time. Honestly would you even look twice if Spielberg's name wasn't on it?"
"This show was honestly incredible... It was a 10/10 series that I absolutely adored highly recommended to anyone who loves and has an interest of the ancient world."
"I'm sorry, but the dinos of Prehistoric Planet are far superior, and were achieved on a much smaller budget. Their dinos look absolutely real, and you are convinced you're watching a documentary with real animals"
ScreenRant notes Netflix's debut of The Dinosaurs' "aligns perfectly" with the arrival of all four Jurassic World movies on Netflix, where they're already dominating Netflix's "Top 10" charts for the U.S.
"Witness the rise and the fall of nature's greatest empire," narrator Morgan Freeman says in the trailer...
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
jeffmclachlan has added a photo to the pool:
The details were finally released last week: [...] That's 7.5 million to 30 million litres of drinking water every single day. This is the reservoir's entire remaining capacity. Google is taking absolutely the limit of all the water they can.
How about the other AI vendors, like OpenAI? [...] Notice what Altman did there -- he started with the headline claim "water is totally fake" then he gave a made-up example ending with "or whatever." What he did not give was anything like a number. A current number. [...]
Given the secrecy, assume all the hyperscalers use a huge amount of fresh water. Until they give us official numbers somewhere they're not allowed to lie. They're not fighting to keep the numbers secret because they're good.
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